Re: How can sarge survive a Windows reinstall?
On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 11:51:24AM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 04:03:44PM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 04:18:44PM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> > > On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 07:10:59AM +1100, David Pastern wrote:
> > > > Hendrik,
> > > >
> > > > My suggestion is to boot off Installer disk #1,
> > >
> > > Will the netinstall disk do? Or does it have to be disk #1 of the full
> > > sarge CD distribution?
> > Yes, the netinstall is fine, as is anything else that has a kernel
> > which will accept a root= parameter.
>
> Just for a lark I tried to use the rescue pricedure you mentioned *before*
> I installed Windows, and glad I did. I booted the CD labelled
> debian testing netinstall 20050201
> which my son recently used to install Debian on his machine.
>
> Evidently I still don't understand something, because when I entered
> rescue root=/dev/hda3
> at the boot: prompt, I was told:
> Could not find kernel image: rescue
>
> Do I need to specify something other than "rescue" on Debian installers?
> Maybe Debian is different from Libranet? Or do I need the first CD
> of the thirteen-odd CD installer?
You only need one CD; the 1MB kernel image is all that gets used. I
don't know, maybe it is called "rescdsk" or something .. pressing the
F1 through F8 keys should tell you all about it.
Justin
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